Step inside Rosemary Clooney's shady nook

From either The Steve Allen Plymouth Show "Salute to the All American Basketball Teams" or The Rosemary Clooney Show.

Billboard 1957

♫ Booker Hyland ♥ Transister ♫

Marinai donne e guai

with a great looking record cover like this, I don't even particularly care if I like the music or not. But I did, at least half of it.

From Musicas dos anos 60.

Marinai donne e guai - Domenico Modugno

A Vintage Diner, Then and Now

Historic Indianapolis takes a look at the life of a classic diner, including a brief video of it in its heyday.

Ingmar Bergman's Bris

No, not that kind of bris. But even famous filmmakers have to pay the bills.

nouvelle danse

A brand new blog dedicated to dance crazes music curated by legendary french vinyl records addicts: "a la piscine" and "rond carré".

http://nouvelledanse.blogspot.com



Let's begin with la yenka ... Yenka riketik






few years later ...

Dutch pulp

A beautiful collection of dutch, american, french pulp book covers from Twincollector


via Au Carrefour Etrange

music and sound-design cut from public-domain horror and science-fiction films from c.1930-1970

"Sounds to Come" is the second installment of a series on Chinstrap of music and sound-design cut from public-domain horror and science-fiction films from c.1930-1970. curated by our dear Ergo Phizmiz, available for your listening horror via Free Music Archive.

The aim of the releases is the reframing of digital artefacts - although the pieces have been recut and equalised, we are not aiming to present definitive versions of these recordings, we rather present the work for the possibility of further investigation into the composers, sound-designers, film-makers, and of course the films themselves, which are available, in the main, for free download at Archive.org.

Divorce Me C. O. D. Uh, Rhythmically and Bluesfully.

Today must be my day to find great cover versions of country hits. Though Everybody Loves a Fat Man is my favorite cut from this album posted at The Blues Collective, I'm loving Eddie Mack's Divorce Me C. O. D. too. 

record envelope

A reference for vinyl geeks and graphic artists. Ms Kavel Rafferty's collection of company sleeves. http://crossedcombs.typepad.com/recordenvelope/

Lazy

Emotions

Richard Shores was a prolific composer of incidental music for such TV shows as Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-0, The Man From UNCLE, and Perry Mason. You can get his musical interpretations of various Emotions here, that include Love, Frustration, Hysteria, Surprise and Gay.

Ferrante and Teicher - With Percussion

share from TAM TAM & Mélodie!

Golden Age of Gas Stations

Now that every trip to a gas station in the US is as welcome as a root canal (quit laughing at us, Europe! QUIT IT!) it's comforting to let Pleasant Family Shopping take us back to the days we could burn fossil fuels relentlessly without a care in the world. That word "humble" in the picture, I'm going to have to look that up, I'm not sure what it means.

sexy sci-fi

WEIRDWARD HO! Retro-futurism, Space Age, Robots, Flying Saucers, Whatever... In glorious SOUND and VISION !!!
A great blog curated by Tabayo Yatukishi, full of sexy sci-fi posters, lobby cards, movies , sounds and fashion from the 60s/70s era..

This guy is having A LOT of fun!

From Wiki: Silly Putty (also marketed by other companies as Thinking Putty, Bouncing Putty, Tricky Putty and Potty Putty), is the Crayola-owned trademark name for a class of silicone polymers. It is marketed today as a toy for children, but was originally created by accident during research into potential rubber substitutes for use by the United States in World War II. The company's manufacturer is based in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Another Nickel In The Machine

Three rather wimpy 'Hells Angels' guarding 144 Piccadilly - 1969

Eel Pie Island, 31st August 1960 

Adam Diment - the bang bang birds published in 1968

Another Nickel In The Machine is a blog about 20th century London (not particularly focused on the 60s), its history, its culture and its music. It is truly fascinating. Found thanks via Planetbarbarella.

Piccolo magazine

"Dolf Hell lend some copies of a magazine that was considered undecent in the fifties, “Piccolo”. Here are some pictures that iTunes probably would have censored half a century ago"



from http://showcase.thebluebus.nl/soundtrack-of-my-life/

Forbidden Dog Toys and Bowling Alleys

At Weirdward Ho! you can enjoy a collection of lobby cards from the 1956 movie "Forbidden Planet", in which humans have relationships with giant Kong dog toys and visit spectacularly awesome bowling alleys. Count me in!

Margie Anderson

Hong Kong Sentinel:



Margie Anderson - The Blues 
From Big Ten Inch Record